The Company of Wolves (KTTV Monday at...

The Company of Wolves (KTTV Monday at 3:30 a.m.) At the core of this dazzling 1986 film, directed by “The Crying Game’s” Neil Jordan, is “Little Red Riding Hood” as we might have dreamed it, rapturously detailed, sparkling with deja vu. It’s a lavish fugue on the themes of childhood, wolves, eroticism and myth. With Angela Lansbury as the grandmother.

John Cassavetes Marathon Friday on Cinemax: Husbands (1970) at 11:30 a.m.; Opening Night (1977) at 2 p.m.; Shadows (1960) at 4:30 p.m.; Gloria (1980) at 6 p.m.; A Woman Under the Influence (1974) at 8 p.m.; The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) at 10:30 p.m. These are some of the best films--the last is open to debate--by the most important independent American film director of the last three decades. Cassavetes’ luminous wife Gena Rowlands stars in the rarely seen “Opening Night,” “Gloria” and, most heroically, in “A Woman Under the Influence.”